February 19th will mark the 35th anniversary of my family’s arrival to the U.S. I was 14-years-old and have vivid memories of that day. Growing up in former Yugoslavia, I had been raised to love America and the ideals for which it stood. My dad often took me to see American movies, in particular Westerns...
Some know him for his libertarian rants in economics classes, others know him by his surf band, the Madeira, which has toured the U.S. and Italy and released six CDs since 2004. Ivan Pongracic was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a country run by communist dictator Marshal Tito at the time. Pongracic’s parents worked...